Summary
Paul Otterstrom is a finance executive and CFO with a decade of progressive leadership across global distribution, chemicals, and supply chain businesses, known for translating complex operations into disciplined financial strategy. He has led large finance organizations—most recently overseeing nearly 400 professionals at Univar Solutions—and now steers finance for Hills Distribution while advising via his consulting firm. Paul pairs deep technical fluency (Oracle, SAP, QlikView, SQL, PHP and more) with hands-on operational experience from fleet and asset management to M&A integration, enabling data-driven commercial decisions. He is an entrepreneur who built and successfully exited a web business, and routinely leverages Spanish and Portuguese to drive international deals and integrations. His strength is simplifying messy cross-functional problems into optimizable drivers through training, communication and pragmatic tooling.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mead Senior High School
Master's Degree Accounting, Master's Degree Accounting at Brigham Young University
Portuguese, Spanish, English